This is radio show # 227 of season 20 of the
Radia weekly comissioned radio art programs. It was submited by
Radio Corax.
It was broadcasted in all Radia stations in the week between 03.09.2009 and 09.08.2009
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In Babel
The intention for the next half an hour was to switch into the subject of CITY - refering to the small east German City Halle and the metropolis Chicago- we decided to choose Babylon as the tertium communis.
"In Babel" can also be used according to the Great Oxford - "babel" means a: a babel of voices, a noisy medley, mostly in today's lingua franca which is English, b: confusion, a scene of confusion, c: as "Tower of Babel" a gigantic project, and finally d: the biblical confusion of languages.
So this musical-linguistic Babel-project is also a prophet and medium of ancient voices from the lowest levels of the tower of Babel.
material: soundscapes in Halle and in the streets and in the elevator of Sear's Tower in Chicago. music recorded and played by Bernd Born -bariton sax Halle- Wolfram Dix -glasses and percussion, Leipzig- Peter Koch - Cello - Dresden- and Christoph Winckel - kontrabass - Leipzig- and Pinguin Moschner -tuba -Halle- in underground water tank in Halle.
Lyrics and voices by Wilhelm Bartsch
Bernd Born is a composer and musician -living in Halle/S. and Wilhelm Bartsch is a writer- working and living in Halle.